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November 23, 2009

Dead.net Tapers Section Index

It's been nine years since the Taper's Section started over at dead.net. To help people browsing for specific shows, here is an index of all the selections archivist David Lemieux has shared.
Pardon any typos & errors. Some links in the first year didn't work; I tried to omit them but might have included a few. Not all of these selections might be as complete as listed, as tracks are missing sometimes. (But some may be more complete; occasionally Lemieux included more tracks than he listed.)
Corrections are welcome, if any of these are misdated or non-playable.

I've now updated the list up through December 2015.

NOV '11 UPDATE: At the moment, the Taper's Section page is somewhat scrambled, and most of the 2008-2010 Tapers Sections are missing, along with other entries gone at random. I don't know if this is a temporary glitch or if a lot of these files are going to permanently disappear. If that happens, there's not going to be much point in continuing this list!
Most likely, the site seems to be having ongoing glitches, as there are complaints in the Comments about disappearing entries starting back in August - entries may vanish & reappear at random.

FEB '13 UPDATE: As of last month, the dead.net crew has finally restored the missing pages!However, the show links from the first year of the Taper's Section may not be playable.The audio links in the first year (up through November 2007) were in a different format and can no longer be accessed.

43 comments:

My intent is to keep updating this list a couple times a year. In the meantime, I thought it might be helpful to list some of the pre-'74 Vault selections here that are not circulating:

A few of the early '66 demos and rehearsals are available on the (out-of-print!) Rare Cuts & Oddities CD, but several important ones are only on the Taper's Section. I wish Lemieux would play more of these! (More details in my 1966 Songs post.)

I don't think the studio '68 Caution has circulated, and the mysterious 9/21/68 jam definitely hasn't! Would be great to hear more of these studio pieces, which are unlikely to be released any other way.(The "early '68" Stephen>Other One is the same as on our 1968 Mystery Reels collection.)

2/22/68 was a treat to hear. I wouldn't expect more of it to surface, since the vocals weren't recorded. I recall Lemieux saying there was at least an Alligator that wasn't released from the recently discovered batch of Anthem tour reels...it would be nice if he shared it!

12/31/68 - Though it hasn't been played, Lemieux says this about the tape, the first live 16-track: "the reels of 12/31/68 were erased to record the January '69 Avalon shows (hey, tape was expensive!), with one lonely Midnight Hour left on tape, featuring all of the musicians who performed that night in an all-star jam. The sound on this 16-track recording is very poor, filled with distortion." [After that, the 16-tracks of the 1/24 and 1/25 Avalon shows were erased to record the February Fillmore shows!]

5/3/69 Lovelight - from the "other" afternoon show.

6/20/69 Lovelight - from a totally unknown show.

9/6/69 Midnight Hour - the end of the show, so there's more in the Vault than we have.

6/4/70 acoustic set - I think it's likely the Vault has the rest of the electric set as well.

6/12/70 Other One - tantalizing! Lemieux notes: "The sound is a little raw, but is much better than it was earlier in the show, when Weir had to stop a tune mid-song to berate the sound man with an expletive-filled rant."

7/1 and 7/3/70 selections - There's not much on the Archive from these fine shows, and Lemieux's picks are welcome additions. I hope there are more pieces from the film-crew recordings.

[By the way, Dancing in the Street from 10/5/70 was included on the 2/4/70 Download Series CD, but nothing from the show has been played on the Taper's Section. I would expect it to be a subdued show, considering Janis's death was hanging over the band.]

1/21/71 - a few tracks. I wouldn't expect the rest of this show to be anything special - but the Vault also has the Good Lovin' from 1/24/71 (that's cut on our copy), which is said to be "largely unlistenable due to technical problems."

3/17/71 - a couple tracks. Lemieux said there were bad tapecuts during Hard to Handle and the Other One....the worst spots, of course!

5/29/71 - the NFA medley. All we have of this show is the terrible AUD recording; but Lemieux has played the great Other One on a radio show (though not on the Taper's Section). [This show also has the longest-ever Hard to Handle, I believe. I also wonder if there's an SBD of the first set from 5/30, with its Good Lovin'.]

Academy of Music 3/72 - Much of this run still doesn't circulate in SBD - most of the 22nd, part of the 25th, or any of the 26th or 27th. Lemieux has at least played a couple very nice jams from 3/26 and 3/27, and a good chunk of 3/22. [The Other One from 3/26 remains the one unheard "big jam" from '72.]

There are also a few SBDs aired from the Vault, that we just have in AUDs... 4/7/72, many selections covering most of the show. 9/15 and 9/16/72 first-set SBD selections. 7/1/73 second-set SBD (partial) - It would be something to hear the Playing in SBD as well!

And finally, there are a couple short soundchecks: Get Back from 10/21/71, and Wang Dang Doodle from 10/23/73.

Yes, some people do. If you ask around on GD forums, you'll probably find someone who's collected mp3s of all the streams. I don't have them, though.

And another thing... This year dead.net has started their "jam of the week", which is basically an extension of the Taper's Section in which part of a show gets played every week. The difference is, the "jam" gets pulled & replaced every week. So, since there won't be an archive of these on dead.net, I won't be cataloging them here...though I'm sure other folks will be saving up mp3 collections of them for downloading.

Now updated through November 2011 - five years of the Taper's Section!

As noted, though, a lot of the earlier Taper's Section entries (including most of 2008-2010) have now disappeared. If they don't return, I may stop updating this list, as there is no point indexing files that don't exist anymore.

And on a personal level, I'm getting pretty burnt-out with this list. The Taper's Section was exciting when it started (Lemieux played a bunch of early stuff that was in superior quality or non-circulating), but now there is simply so much '80s dreck getting played, so little that's new to collectors, and so many entries are simply repeats of already-played shows, it's become quite an unrewarding slog to do this!

One person on the Archive Dead forum commented: "I went on the wayback machine here at the archive to look back and found that the taper's section homepage was represented here in the archive, and so I copied and pasted the links and found that I could still stream the files from Dead.net. So they haven't actually removed the files... I did have some luck using the wayback machine but also found some of them did not work. I have found some of the actual pages at deadnet are still there that are missing from the tapersection feature frontpage as you noticed. It's just that there are no links to get to them. But using the archive, I copied and pasted the address to my browser, erasing the archive.org segment of the address and I got there. Also used similar way to get to stream the tracks. I also reached some dead ends, so to speak."

Hopefully the old pages from 2008-2010 will get listed on the Taper's Section page again, but there's no telling - if it was a glitch, it's not one dead.net has been in a hurry to fix.

In the past month, Lemieux has mainly played '80s sets - seems to be a trend. I'm not sure whether it's his current preference, a rut, or as one person speculated, because the '80s are less represented on CD releases. At any rate, it makes it less interesting for me!

I get the impression Lemieux himself has burned out on the Taper's Section, considering how repetitive the selections & posts have been for a long time now. There isn't much 'writeup' in his posts now, and there hasn't been a new surprise in so long... It's almost insulting some weeks to see how little care went into it. That said, he probably has little time to spend on it; I'm sure it's the least of his many duties; and since he's the Vault-keeper, it's not likely anybody else will get to make the picks! The selections are generally long these days, though (almost like he just grabs a reel & lets it roll, rather than picking out songs) - sometimes entire sets, which must please the '80s fans out there. (He is also picking "Jams of the Week," which are temporary streaming files that are not archived.)And, as the length of this list shows, there is still a huge wealth of selections, however much I might quibble about them! Though naturally I'd prefer him to feature, say, all the uncirculated tapes of 1966 or 1969 (and why not?), casual listeners can find an endless number of shows from all eras to listen to.

But as of now, it seems to me there are multiple reasons to stop updating this list, not just that old pages are disappearing or hard to find - when almost all the selections from the last year are things I personally wouldn't want to play, or repeated from previous dates, or more accessible on the Archive already, I feel, why keep doing this? So we'll see...

It looks like they are finally working on fixing the index. Earlier today I noticed it was growing and now went back to 2011-05-02 without gaps, now a few hours later it goes back to 2011-02-11 before there is a gap. Hopefully they'll get it all back. And the links will work.

Together with the recent late 72s on Taper's Section and Jam of the Week and the format change last August things are looking up again.

By the end of 2011/start of 2012, doing this index was a depressing slog because almost all of Lemieux's selections were repeats that he'd picked before (often entire weeks were duplicated). It was like he'd just given up. The last year has seen a significant improvement, though, with fewer repeats and more new material presented. (Curiously, Lemieux does seem to be concentrating on a few narrow time periods lately, so there are still plenty of repeated shows.)

Of most interest, recently there have even been a few selections of non-circulating SBD bits - for instance, first-set stuff from 9/24/73 & 5/12/77, post-drums from 4/22/78...and, most exciting to me, the end of 1/24/71.

Curious about the dates 1-7-70 and 3-7-70. Are you dating American or European style? Rather, do you mean Jan-7-1970 and 3-7-1970 to which, yes, there have never been Taper's Sections for. Or do you mean July-1-1970 and July-3-1970, to which there have been Taper's Sections for and yes, Lovelight was played at both.

Thanks for pointing this out. On further investigation, not only are the Lovelights on 7/1 & 7/3/70 the same, the China>Riders are also the same. Lemieux even comments in the 6/30/08 Taper's Section that he's played the Lovelight before, but dates it 7/1/70 (though it had been dated 7/3/70 before).

On 6/29/09 he played a longer chunk of this show, including Candyman, Dire Wolf & UJB from the acoustic set; then it's announced, "now the New Riders;" then we cut to the electric set, with MAMU & the same old China>Rider - this show is dated 7/1/70.

Lemieux also played New Speedway in the 9/29/08 Taper's Section, dated 7/3/70. (It sounds different from the other tapes, being in stereo.) The catch is, I think this is the same one that's in the Festival Express film, which is from Toronto 6/27/70!

Fortunately, there is part of a Lovelight from the Festival Express tour on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJhnOq2q3ag As you can hear, it's the same one that's on the Taper's Section. It's also from the same show as Don't Ease, New Speedway & Hard to Handle in the Festival Express video - Toronto 6/27/70.So for some reason, Lemieux is playing us tracks from the Toronto show dated both 7/1 and 7/3.

Evidently there's some date mixup on these tapes in the Vault! I believe ALL the tracks Lemieux has played from this tour are actually from the 6/27/70 show. Possibly it's the only Festival Express show in the Vault.

There's also a snippet from this tour on the Archive, dated July 1 '70: http://archive.org/details/gd70-07-01.sbd.cotsman.9624.sbeok.shnf It includes Candyman, which is a different electric version. I believe this is accurately dated; it has the same Easy Wind that's on video, also dated 7/1/70.

Excellent, this clears up a helluva lot of confusion! But from the visual evidence I reckon we have Calgary not Toronto.

I agree that Dough Knees, Speedway, Hard To Handle and Lovelight are all from the same daytime show. Phil and Pig both remove their over shirts after the acoustic set but otherwise everyone is dressed consistently throughout. Jerry wears a mauve tie dye.

The film of Speedway, HTH and Lovelight all show the band against backdrops of a red and white striped stadium with a pressbox on top of the unroofed stand on the far side and with a grass bank at the end opposite the band, beyond which in the distance are two apartment blocks and a radio mast. The film of Dough Knees is identified as Toronto and has crowd shots showing the CNE Stadium scoreboard in a stadium where the far stand has no pressbox on top and there is what looks like another stage in the far corner which is not in the stadium with the pressbox. The Dead are only shown front on, all you can see is them and the beat up blue band shell (which seems to have been used for every show), we never see them and the stands in the same shot.

In Jerry's announcement of the Toronto free stage, he is wearing a green with white loops tie dye under a leather jacket, he is wearing the same shirt for Friend of the Devil from the free show in the park. For Dough Knees, supposedly the same day in Toronto, he wears the mauve tie dye that matches the electric daytime footage.

So the band footage of Dough Knees does not match the Toronto crowd footage used with it. The continuity of the movie cannot be trusted.

The daytime Dead in the movie are playing in the red and white stadium with the pressbox. I'm confident this is Calgary. Here's an aerial picture from the opening of Calgary’s McMahon Stadium in 1960

http://www.stampeders.com/stamps_story

A red and white striped stadium with a pressbox on top of the right hand stand with just an open bank at the near end.

Some contemporary pictures

http://football.ballparks.com/CFL/Calgary/index.htm

It has been developed in the meantime but is still recognisably the same ground. I can't find a view beyond that end to show the apartment blocks to confirm everything but I am confident this is the stadium.

The NRPS footage with Jerry and Mickey both dressed in mauve again is also in the same red and white stadium with the apartment blocks so is from the same day.

The big CC Rider jam is also in the same stadium and is identified by the interviewed Sylvia Tyson as taking place in Calgary. Jerry is still wearing the mauve tie dye, now with a denim shirt over it, and Billy is still wearing his flowers shirt.

I think that is enough evidence to locate all the daytime Dead footage from Festival Express (except Friend Of The Devil which is from the Toronto free show in the park) as McMahon Stadium in Calgary. The continuity of the Dead’s attire means it is all the same day. This is the day of the night-time all star CC Rider jam which is probably a big end of festival encore jam so would have taken place on the last day, Sunday 1970-07-05, after Janis (presumably) closed the show. That is, unless Lemieux is correct with his date of Friday the 3rd. Every other source I’ve seen has the train taking five days from leaving Toronto on the Monday morning to arrive in Calgary on the advertised Saturday the 4th so I think the Calgary shows went ahead on schedule on the 4th and 5th. You have tied together all of the Taper’s Section tracks to be from just one show and I agree but that show was in Calgary not Toronto.

So where does the night time Easy Wind on the Festival Express extras disc come from? It’s not nearly so easy to identify the different venues in the dark particularly as they used the same stage each time. However, the daytime footage of Toronto clearly shows a big roller coaster ride beyond the stage. Beyond the stage in Easy Wind are lit up funfair rides so I think that it is Toronto. The Dead are wearing different clothes to the FOTD from the free show in Coronation Park on 1970-06-27 so I think it is the evening of Sunday 1970-06-28.

This means the three track fragment 9624 contains the Easy Wind from Toronto, the Hard To Handle from Calgary and an electric Candyman which is not the Calgary acoustic one.

I can’t remember where at the moment, but I read that the Dead traded permission to use footage of them in the movie for the original film of all the unused footage. And there are comments on youtube saying Festival Express will be rereleased in late 2013/early 2014 with extra additional footage. Lipsmacking stuff to come hopefully! I won’t believe the time span until I see it though. Especially, as now the Dead own the film, rights negotiations will have to start anew.

Did the Dead record their own tapes? I’ve never seen an interview with Healy, Matthews, Betty or Bear that mentions this trip and I don’t see them in the film. Ramrod is there at the great licquor store buyout and Cutler is there. I suspect all the Dead have is badly labelled reels from the film project, that would explain Lemieux’s confusion.

Just for the sake of completeness, the third venue was Winnipeg and this can be seen in the Buddy Guy footage. It can be identified by the stadium having a stand at the far end from the stage, unlike the other two.

Thanks for your research! It looks like I had some misinformation myself - seeing Don't Ease Me In dated 6/27/70 in the film, with the CNE Stadium shown in a crowd shot, I thought that date was secure. Evidently not! Very clever (& misleading) mixing of shots by the film producers there... Actually, if you look closely, you'll notice that the Hard to Handle from the DVD uses some of the exact same shots of Garcia as the Lovelight clip on youtube! A LOT of editing clearly went into that film.

I rechecked the footage & agree with your show IDs - though if anything it makes the picture more confusing, throwing every known date out!

The short clip from Coronation Park is definitely 6/27. Not only is Garcia in the same shirt as in his earlier stage announcement, the free show started around 7pm; and we can see the sun is low in the sky during the Dead's performance. They played at the stadium first that day, so the Easy Wind from an evening Toronto show has to be from 6/28.

A Rolling Stone article after the tour said there were two free shows in Toronto's Coronation Park, on 6/27 and 6/28 (the Dead played both, and the crowd was much smaller on the second day). Contemporary news articles didn't mention the second free show, though.

I noticed that Winnipeg was represented in the film only by the Buddy Guy show.

I am not sure where the 7/3 date for Calgary originated, or whether the Dead played both the 4th & the 5th - info is scanty. Deadlists is useless here.

By the way, although the film has a brief snippet of Friend of the Devil from the free Coronation Park show, it's not synced to the footage; they're playing acoustic, but not necessarily that song. No telling where the audio clip comes from, but it's possible the film crew might not have recorded audio for the park show. The end of the film also has audio of an acoustic Cold Jordan with NRPS, which could come from anywhere.

The Dead definitely did not record their own tapes. All the recordings come from the film crew, and my guess is labeling was minimal.

I hadn't read that the Dead acquired the Festival Express footage - quite the opposite. Actually Historic Films Archive has acquired & digitized over 100 hours of footage from the tour: http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs064/1102441252672/archive/1111052197338.html http://www.jambase.com/Articles/118733/The-Band-Festival-Express-Outtakes-Surface-On-YouTube Since Historic Films put the Lovelight (& other clips) up on youtube, it indicates that the Dead don't own the footage.

I rechecked Winnipeg again, comparing the Buddy Guy footage with the Easy Wind. And Easy Wind IS from Winnipeg 7/1/70.

During Buddy's solo, looking out you can see a fairground ride turning around behind the bleachers. Just after his set, there's a shot of the ferris wheels lit up at night, the front one in yellow. In the nighttime crowd shots in Easy Wind, we can see that same fairground ride turning around, and briefly during the jam, we can also see the yellow-lit ferris wheel turning around.

I was wrong about the CC Rider jam being at the end of the festival too, it's not yet totally dark so it's before the end. So there's no reason to believe it's the Sunday instead of the Saturday.

That story about the Dead acquiring the film came from John Platt, "a researching archive consultant", in the Taping Compendium Vol 1 p 576

"Turned out that what happened was the production company came to an agreement with the Grateful Dead whereby the Dead are allowing these people to use X amount of Dead footage in their finished documentary. The quid pro quo is that all the remaining Grateful Dead footage will be returned to the Dead."

As this was published years before the film was finally released maybe this was just what the Dead wanted out of the negotiations at that time, not what they finally got.

Anyway, to end on a fashion note. Jerry's green tie dye he wears in Toronto is the same shirt he was photographed wearing in Atlanta 1970-05-10 when they had to borrow the Allman's gear.

Another update! After some more research, it's clear that the Dead only played one show in Toronto, and one in Calgary. For those two-day stretches, the promoters added more bands so that some bands would play on Saturday, some on Sunday. A newspaper review of the Toronto Festival makes it clear that the Dead only played the stadium on Saturday 6/27. After a day of other bands (starting at noon), NRPS came on at 9 pm; then the Dead came on & played an hour-long set; then the Band closed out the day. Other performers, including Janis, played the next day.

(This makes it more likely that the Dead played in the park again on 6/28. Sam Cutler remembered them playing the stadium, then the park on 6/27, but his account is contradicted by the newspaper report from the next day. Starting at 7, the Dead could've played for 60-90 minutes before heading back to the stadium. A deadlist witness says the 6/27 park show was acoustic, and the 6/28 show electric; the 6/27 park show also rolled on til 4 am, so the Dead could have returned that night.)

A deadlists witness of the Calgary shows says that the Dead played a long set on the first day, and the Band & Janis appeared the next day. I wasn't sure if this was accurate, but now it's clear they followed much the same format as in Toronto. It was announced before the tour that in the two-day shows, double the acts would appear; stretching them out over 2 days would prevent everyone from being limited to brief sets!

Though I probably won't be updating this post for another couple months, I wanted to mention that Lemieux has included the first unreleased portion of a '69 show we've heard on the Taper's Section in a very long time - 48 minutes of the end of 7/3/69, on the 7-29-13 Taper's Section.

There's a hilariously terrible Hard to Handle; then the Friend of Mine (which was on the Taper's Section before), which is a standout in the show; then a half-hour Lovelight which is pretty weak - it just kind of drags on, and cuts off shortly before the end. Constanten shines at the beginning; Garcia is not in top form and sometimes sounds like he's struggling.

A 37-minute chunk of the start of the show is on an earlier Taper's Section (5-23-11) and on the Archive; with this Taper's Section, we have pretty much the entire show (except for Mama Tried), if the deadlists setlist is complete. I doubt anything followed Lovelight, since that was the traditional closer. This show is not one of the highlights of 1969. I'm still very glad it was included on the Taper's Section, though - not only does it add to our record of the year, it illustrates that perhaps the remaining unheard 1969 shows in the Vault were left unleaked & uncirculated because they're not very remarkable, or are even downright dire. Not that I'd say "we've heard the best already" - I'm sure there are still some gems lurking in the Vault - but I bet we'd find a lot more 30-minute Lovelights than Dark Stars in the remaining "lost" 1969 shows.

Not Taper's Section but close. The new Dead.net Jam Of The Week for Feb 28 2014 has set 2 from St Louis 1972-10-17 up to Friend Of The Devil. It does not have the 20 second gap in Black Peter. Jack Straw and FOTD are unavailable elsewhere. We are still missing BIODTL.

I have one odd question that's been bugging me for years. I've never been into taping myself, but one time I had a neighbor who was a tape trader, and once when I was visiting he put on a tape that sounded like it was very early -- e. g., '67 or '68. Unmistakable. So we're listening, and later, I hear Bob with the following lyrics:

I asked him for water, he gave me some wine We finished the bottle and broke into mine

et cetera, et cetera -- all the lyrics of "Greatest Story Ever Told". I could have sworn that song was from the mid-Seventies, not '67-'68, of course, so I asked someone about it, and he told me Hunter never wrote those lyrics, the lyrics were from some old folk song of unknown origin -- Unknown/Traditional. I've been trying to figure out the origins of those lyrics pretty much ever since -- but every account I've ever come across has the story of Mickey's water pump as the origin of the song, and Hunter as the author. And checking out Deadbase is futile if those lyrics were in a song with a different title in the early days -- in Deadbase, GSET itself dates back no earlier than the mid-Seventies.

It could be that the guy himself was misinformed (or lying through his teeth). One other separate possibility was that what I was listening to was a "mix tape", e. g., a mix of songs from different years that somebody made. But I should think that a "mix tape" would be anathema to tapers, right?

Has anybody ever heard lyrics that would eventually get into "Greatest Story Ever Told" in some radically earlier setting?

Most likely you heard a mix tape; or GSET may have been filler on an otherwise '60s tape. (Mix tapes might have been uncommon among Dead tapers, but random tape fillers were frequently used.)It's true, the song didn't debut until 1971, and Hunter did write the words. Those lyrics were never used earlier - definitely no traditional folk lines here - though that particular line "I asked him for water, he gave me some wine," resembles the blues line "I asked for water, she gave me gasoline" (but with a biblical twist).

It's been over two years, I know... I lost enthusiasm for updating this when it became obvious Lemieux was repeating a lot of the same clips over and over. Still, I should update this again in November!

As expected, Lemieux has repeated lots of the same clips - some selections have been repeated four times by now! This seems to be at random. To my surprise, 2013-14 were something of a renaissance for the Taper's Section, since Lemieux started including large portions of many shows and parts of tours that he had never played before. A few years in particular were singled out for fuller representation - for instance, fall '73, '79, '83, and Oct '94. Occasionally he'd pull out an SBD tape that isn't circulating.2015 was more of a disappointment. Since the spring Lemieux has generally been doing "this month in history"-type selections (though falling farther behind with each month, so he's now doing August shows!), but almost every single clip is one he's selected before, even a few times - in fact sometimes I think entire Taper's Sections have been repeated from previous years. There are certain dates he returns to a lot. This list may seem huge, but as the Taper's Section intro says, there are over 1600 Dead shows in the Vault, and quite a few of them (and some whole tours) have never been included in the Taper's Section, for whatever reason.

Anyway, I'll try to keep this index updated more regularly in the future.

I've been alerted that the audio links in the first year of the Taper's Section (up through November 2007) still can't be accessed or played. There was a note on the 12/3/07 Taper's Section: "In an attempt to make the streams work better for all of you, we've upgraded the player so that it's faster and spiffier." The older streams (which were in another format, and downloadable at least up through August 2007) were left dormant, and I don't think they will ever be restored. It's a pity, since a lot of the selections in the first year were unique and haven't been played since; but Lemieux never intended the Taper's Section to be a comprehensive history where people would have an index to all the selections over the years!

I still think you should keep track of the dates of the early, unplayable selections. The reason being sometimes information about the tracks are included on the journal entries and it is still useful to use the entries if only for reference and not for listening. Who knows, maybe someone at some time will be able to find a workaround to get these to work as they already have for the tracks that use the flvplayer (.flv files). Thanks again for all that you do.

I've been advised that some of the audio links in the first year of the Taper's Section can still be accessed via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. A couple random examples: http://web.archive.org/web/20070708100312/http://dead.net/features/tapers-section/february-5-february-11-2007 http://web.archive.org/web/20070708100458/http://dead.net/features/tapers-section/february-12-february-18-2007 You should find the links there still go to playable MP3s. However, not every page works - other links weren't saved, and I've tried others from 2007 that were still dead ends, perhaps because they weren't captured in time.